Great thing to do with your kids, Beki! I whole-heartedly support your idea, but probably won't do it myself. :) It has to be good for families with kids at home though. There are so many summer activities to enjoy together.

I could do it. I will read all day! I have to think of a day. Tuesday is my day off and I would love to do it all day, but it is the day I do most of my blog work so I would hate for it to suffer. Tuesday night tv stinks!!! SO it would not be hard that way and daytime tv is non existant. HUMMMM.... I will think about it. Doing a day I work would be almost cheating! I don't have access to them there. Sorry I am rambling;) Also my mother and stepfater will NOT do this, he lives for tv (while he sleeps) But I can do it. No kids so much easier for me ;)Hugs, Lisa

Good idea! We do it a little differently. The TV goes off at 10:00 a.m. You missed it cuz you slept in? You SNOOZE/ You LOOSE! Then, the TV cannot get turned back on until 8:00 p.m (depends on the age of the kids, but I only have teens at home now so up later.) This works really well for us, especially when I have to get business stuff done in the morning without anyone bugging me! LOL

We have done this! Not once a week but everyday. It's amazing how many more things there are to do besides tv computers movies and phones! Its like eating at the dining room table 12 hours at a time. You talk and get to know each other again. It's a lovely thing to do.

Definitely food for thought!!! We did this also when the kids we little. At that time we didn't own a computer but we disconnected the cable for the summer. It was amazing how much more family time we had and how many more walks and talks there were!!

Have you been eavesdropping on my conversations for the past week? Did you hear me say that the first thing I do when I get home from work is plop my butt down on the couch to watch tv and then only get up to go to bed ... or eat of course?! This is AMAZING! Thank you for this! I am definitely participating!

We do this a bit differently at our house. No media before 1:00 pm every day and Sundays none at all. The kids use their imaginations and play outside all morning. When it gets too hot to be enjoyable anymore I don't mind when they turn the TV on. I love it.

Thanks for your comment today on my blog. Your Unplug It Day is intriguing to me. I tend to not sweat the electronic thing in our house and have found that we don't over-use -- I'm not sure if that's because we're not big users to begin with or because I don't make a big deal out of it when my boys do use their PSPs, etc. Anyway, I think what an "unplugged" day offers is what's important and the concerted effort of getting to gether to do a craft, to cook, or play board games, hike or whatever sounds good. I think I might be sold!

I clicked over via Amy's Finer Things - not sure if I'm quite ready to take the plunge but I sure have been inspired to stay off as much as I can! I linked to this on my weekly roundup - thanks for sharing!

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